Preventing Dealing With Seperation Anxiety In Dogs

• Separation Anxiety - Departure Triggers Checklist The following is a list of common potential Separation Anxiety triggers to your dog. These things may indicate your impending absence and increase your dog’s anxiety. You should actively de-sensitise your dog to these triggers as part of your behavioural modification program:  ...
• What Separation Anxiety Is Not Separation anxiety is the go-to diagnosis for any dog parent who has a dog that destroys property, vocalises, toilets inappropriately or has ballistic greeting behaviour. We constantly field an avalanche of well meaning dog parents wanting to know how to ‘fix’ self diagnosed separation anxiety in their dog. They immediately jump to this conclusion when the dog does something undesirable in their absence. Not all owner absent behaviour is separation anxiety. ...
• Will Getting Another Dog Help The short answer is maybe, maybe not. If your dog is happy with company of some sort and it doesn’t matter if that is you or anyone else then it could help. If your dog is only at ease when you’re home then it’s not likely to help at all. One way to test the theory is to offer to babysit a dog for a friend or relative. You could also contact a local rescue group and try fostering a dog for them short-term. If your dog is perfectly happy in this scenario then getting a second...